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EXCLUSIVE: The Orville executive producer Jon Cassar has signed an overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television, the studio behind Fox’s sci-fi dramedy. The multi-year pact keeps the Emmy-winning director/producer and his Cassar Filmworks in the 20th TV fold.
Under the deal, 24 veteran Cassar will continue on in his…

Matthew Perry says he took the Ted Kennedy role in Reelz’s sequel to The Kennedys limited series, The Kennedys – After Camelot, because "it scared me,” calling it by far the most challenging role he has ever played.
"As a man who has been forced to transform his life many times, I really admire the changes he made,"…

EXCLUSIVE: The Returned star Jeremy Sisto has been tapped for the lead role of Detective Jack Roth in ABC’s new fall crime drama Wicked City. In this recasting, the Suburgatory alum is taking over the role of the conflicted cop played by Adam Rothenberg in the pilot. The deal was closed over the weekend, I’ve learned…

Harvey Keitel (The Grand Budapest Hotel, From Dusk Till Dawn) has joined the cast of Jon Cassar’s action/comedy series Rio Heat opposite Victor Webster. Keitel will play Hubert Humbolt, a mysterious figure and ex-CIA operator who now owns the largest private investigation company in the world. He opens his Rio branch…

Action comedy series Rio Heat, produced under a co-production treaty between Brazil and Canada, is described as a cross between Hawaii 5-0, Miami Vice, Magnum PI and Moonlighting. Emmy-winning 24 producer/director Jon Cassar will executive produce and direct multiple episodes of the 13-episode series, which will be…

Howard Gordon continues to put the24 gang back together for the upcoming Fox event series. Jon Cassar has signed on to executive produce and direct multiple episodes of 24: Live Another Day, including the first two episodes. Cassar was a producer–director on the series from Seasons 2-7 — he directed 59 episodes…

Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadline’s coverage of TCAFox’s drama Terra Nova is really going to premiere in September, the producers of the megabucks Fox prehistoric drama Terra Nova — which seemingly has been in some form of production since the Jurassic Period — assured critics and at a TCA panel this…

EXCLUSIVE: It will be an even larger 24 reunion on Fox's upcoming prehistoric drama Terra Nova, which is executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Peter Chernin. Long-time 24 director-executive producer Jon Cassar has joined the 13-episode midseason series as an executive producer and regular series director. He…